Biron Mill Power Plant

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Biron Mill Power Plant is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by Stora Enso - a Swedish-Finnish multinational pulp & paper manufacturer - near Biron, Wisconsin. The plant provides power to Stora Enso's Biron pulp & paper mill.

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Plant Data

• Owner/Parent Company: Stora Enso
• Plant Nameplate Capacity: 61.6 MW (Megawatts)
• Units and In-Service Dates: 7.5 MW (1947), 15.6 MW (1957), 17.0 MW (1964), 21.5 MW (1987)
• Location: 621 Biron Dr., Biron, WI 54494
• GPS Coordinates: 44.430025, -89.780535
• Electricity Production: 245,599 MWh
• Coal Consumption:
• Coal Source:
• Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

• CO₂ Emissions: 430,030 tons (2006)
• SO₂ Emissions: 5,786 tons
• SO₂ Emissions per MWh: 47.12 lb/MWh
• NO_x Emissions: 2,208 tons
• Mercury Emissions:

Articles and Resources

Sources

• Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
• Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
• Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
• Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.
• NETL Coal Power Plant Database, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2007.
• AirData Query Database, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed April 2009.

Related SourceWatch Articles

• Existing U.S. Coal Plants
• Wisconsin and coal
• Stora Enso
• United States and coal
• Global warming

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